Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.779

   See, that's the trouble When the quantum world is ‘reality’ That lead to a confusion about this. Not many worlds. No, I'm against it. Well I have to be careful about this. I have I have a point of view. This has to be taken in the right spirit. But my point of view is that it's a good thing to have had in certain stages of your life, to have believed in the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics. The shorter period the better. I did go through such a state myself believing it in the many worlds interpretation and I hope, I can't remember how long it was, whether it was as long as a year…

   yt/0nOtLj8UYCw-quantum-consciousness-debate-does-the-wave-function-actually/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.773

   My view is very different from that. I you you've got to have think where where where there's just one world that survives and the other ones die off in a sense. But the alternatives, yes. For OR OR, you have to have that. So um is it more uh is it more an objection to uh to the many worlds theory in that it doesn't seem to accommodate consciousness or is it is it, you know, sort of more evidentiary for, you know, for the standard or Copenhagen type uh wave collapse uh etc. In other words, if God tells you there are many worlds, uh what How would you react? I mean, could Would you say, "No, th…

   yt/OoDi856wLPM-sir-roger-penrose-stuart-hameroff-collapsing-a-theory-of-qua/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.772

   The fundamental reality which is described by quantum physics the quantum states in Hilbur space in this n-dimensional space that is the reality where conscious experiences are the the quantum state is a representation of a conscious experience of qualia. So it's the the best thing that mathematics can get you to to represent qualia which is not is not a set of numbers because probabilities are not are not numbers. They refer to something else. They refer to something that might happen. They don't refers to what will what is. So you you cannot call an a probability as a number is is not itself…

   yt/d6NHRB5V1eE-top-physicist-science-spirituality-merge-in-this-new-theory-/transcript.txt

4. 04 · wikisource0.771

   A platonistic ontology of this sort is, from the point of view of a strictly physicalistic conceptual scheme, as much a myth as that physicalistic conceptual scheme itself is for phenomenalism. This higher myth is a good and useful one, in turn, in so far as it simplifies our account of physics. Since mathematics is an integral part of this higher myth, the utility of this myth for physical science is evident enough. In speaking of it nevertheless as a myth, I echo that philosophy of mathematics to which I alluded earlier under the name of formalism. But an attitude of formalism may with equal…

   wikisource/on-what-there-is/page.txt

5. 05 · blog0.770

   That Betty believes \(p\) is represented by the fact that \(p\) is true in all of her doxastic alternatives; her wavering about \(q\) is represented by the fact that \(q\) is true in some but not all accessible worlds. Different people have different beliefs, which require different accessibility structures. For example, suppose that Barney’s doxastic state agrees with Betty’s except that he considers it possible that Wilma doesn’t have a cold: \[ \begin{align*} & w_0: \neg p, q\\ & w_1: p, q\\ & w_2: p, \neg q\\ & w_3: \neg p, \neg q\\ \end{align*} \] Barney’s doxastic state In this model \(p…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/common-ground-in-pragmatics.md

6. 06 · archive0.768

   This thesis argues that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is unable to derive objective probabilities and the Born rule without falling into circular arguments, and that current cosmological models, such as inflationary or cyclic models, are an epistemologically incomplete view of reality, each presenting its own problems, failing to incorporate quantum gravity and where the block universe hypothesis fails, leading to the emergence of infinities. However, with a quantum cosmology model, and with a universal wavefunction with a closed timelike curve (CTC), and applying the Eve…

   archive/ThesisTOEdll/00- Quantum Cosmology : An Epistemological and Ontological Perspective on Quantum Cosmology and Levels of the Multiverse (rev0)_djvu.txt

7. 07 · blog0.766

   Here we will focus on the possible-worlds analyses of belief and mutual belief, which Stalnaker’s (2002, 2014) account of common ground is based on (Fagin et al. 1995; Rendsvig, Symons, & Wang 2023). Suppose that Betty believes, wrongly as it happens, that Wilma has a cold, but is undecided about whether Napoleon was French or not. Hence, as far Betty can tell, it may be the case that Napoleon was French or it may be the case that Napoleon was not French. We model Betty’s doxastic state as follows. Let \(p\) be the proposition that Wilma has a cold and \(q\) the proposition that Napoleon was F…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/common-ground-in-pragmatics.md

8. 08 · yt0.765

   With certainty. Now, this is a criterion, I don't know what you call it, a a dictum I call it, by Einstein. Einstein was worried about this concept of quantum reality, I think. And he and lots of other people were worried about this. To what extent is the quantum state real? Is it a real thing? Or is it just a figment of imagination or useful tool of a our calculations? Is it real? Not that it's real in the sense of real numbers, cuz it's not. It's complex numbers, which is a nice sort of um iron irony. But take the spin case, that's a good one. Which way is it spinning? Like you know, not sur…

   yt/vC4HNcqTQXk-roger-penrose-on-mind-consciousness-closer-to-truth-chats/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.765

   So it's originally in one place, then it becomes in a superposition of two places. Then after a certain point, it becomes one or the other. Now, if it does that, the state sort of jumps to one or the other. But that's not my view. The view that I have is that when it reduces to one or the other, it's as though it had been Suppose it reduces to this one rather than that one, then that means state was in effect been this one all the time. And this is a strange theory because it sort of looks as though the world behaves retroactively. That's as to say, it it you thought it was in a superposition …

   yt/OoDi856wLPM-sir-roger-penrose-stuart-hameroff-collapsing-a-theory-of-qua/transcript.txt

10. 10 · blog0.764

    Then it looks different at a different time, but still is essentially the same. In all these cases we orient according to differences and coherence of existence, and not very reliably at that. I want to show with this shaggy sheep tale that the question of continuous existence throughout different positions and qualities is not easily resolved, and therefore we should be carefully before we discount all talk of "double existence, parallel worlds etc.". Last amended June 11, 1989 -- Page NEXTRECORD 295 Existence is hard to imagine and contradicts with experience and commonsense unless we postul…

    blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-supradimensionality-part-i-i-o-internet-sacred-text-arc.md